Ready for football season? Here are a few Windows Phone apps to help you keep up with all the Gridiron action

Our Windows Phones are great tools to keep up with life while on the go. Be it checking your email, making calls, surfing the internet or checking in on your favorite social network. With football season being right around the corner, many will be turning to their Windows Phones to keep tabs with all the scores, standings and stats from their favorite College or Professional football team.

To help you get ready for some football, this week's app roundup, we take a peak at four football oriented apps for our Windows Phone.

Football Pro '14 (free): Billed as the ultimate football app for our Windows Phone, Football Pro has been around for a few seasons and the 2014 version landed in the Windows Phone Store just the other day. Football Pro '14 is nicely laid out to help you keep track of all the scores, stats and standings from the National Football League.

Key features for Football Pro '14 include live streaming radio broadcasts of games, the latest news from every team, full rosters and detailed information about all players (including a player comparison tool and stat leaders), a sports talk chat area, access to various NFL podcasts and a Fantasy Playoff Prediction game for bragging rights.

With Football Pro '14 you can also tag your favorite team for quick and easy access on stats, standings, scores and news on that team.

Football Pro '14 is a free, ad supported app for your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 devices. You can pick up Football Pro '14 here in the Windows Phone Store. Please note that if you're already enjoying Football Pro '13, an update is available that will refresh the app to the 2014 version.

NFL Mobile (free): NFL Mobile was recently re-released for Windows Phone 8 and is the official app of the NFL. You can use NFL Mobile to tap into your NFL.com account or skip all that and just enjoy a well laid out football app.

When you first launch NFL Mobile you'll be asked to tag a favorite team and choose which alerts you want active. From there you are taken to the main pages that covers NFL news in general, news from your favorite team, NFL videos, and a menu page that will take you to news, scores, your team page, your fantasy team page, schedules, standings, other team pages, access to the NFL shop, find tickets to the game (via TicketMaster), and access NFL Mobile's settings.

Settings cover everything from your profile information, a help section, alert settings, and NFL.com subscriptions. As an added bonus, Verizon Wireless subscribers can upgrade to premium features for access to the NFL RedZone on Sunday, live NFL games on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights and live game audio and the NFL Network 24/7.

One nice feature on NFL Mobile is a one touch button that sits at the bottom of the screen throughout the app that will take you straight to scores. It's handy way to stay on top of all the games in progress.

NFL Mobile is only available for Windows Phone 8 devices, it's a free app and you can pick it up here in the Windows Phone Store.

College Football Scoreboard (free): For those who follow the college games closer than you do the pro league, we have the Windows Phone app, College Football Scoreboard.

There's not much to College Football Scoreboard but it does offer a respectable amount of information on NCAA football. Main pages cover news stories, schedules and scores. You can view the information for all FBS and FCS teams or tap the "change" link towards the top of the page to filter things down to your favorite league or the top 25 teams.

College Football Scoreboard has Live Tile support with scores updated every thirty minutes and you can update scores within the app automatically as quickly as every thirty seconds. Need to conserve your data? College Football Scoreboard will let you limit when news images can be downloaded (over WiFi only, data or WiFi, and never).

Lastly College Football Scoreboard has lockscreen support to throw out the scores on your Windows Phone lockscreen. It may not have many bells and whistles but if prefer game day being on Saturdays, College Football Scoreboard is worth checking out.

College Football Scoreboard is a free, ad supported app for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices that you can find here at the Windows Phone Store.

ESPN Fantasy Football (free): Fantasy football has grown by leaps and bounds over the years and is an integral part of the NFL experience. It should be no surprise that ESPN is one of the leading sources for fantasy football leagues.

With that being said, the ESPN Fantasy Football app for our Windows Phones is a great way to keep track of and manage your ESPN fantasy football teams. You'll still need to go to ESPN.com and create your fantasy team but once you have your lineup set, the Windows Phone app kicks into gear.

The ESPN Fantasy Football app will let you manage your team by starting or benching players; add, drop and claim players off waivers; and propose, accept or reject trades with other owners in your fantasy league. You also have access to ESPN's Fantasy League news, videos and tweets from ESPN analysts.

Scoring is provided through the FantasyCast Live Scoring that provides real-time player and matchup scoring updates. ESPN Insiders can also manage push notifications for the Fantasy Football app.

All totaled, if you are participating in an ESPN fantasy football league, you need the ESPN Fantasy Football app on your Windows Phone. It's a free app that you can download here in the Windows Phone Store.

There are still tons of football apps in the Windows Phone Store. You have the heavy weights such as ScoreMobile, ESPN Scorecenter, and the ESPN Hub but these cover the full spectrum of sporting events. Then there are the team apps that focus solely on College or Professional teams.

Football season is just around the corner and if you have a favorite Windows Phone app to help you keep up with the news, stats, scores and standings... sound off in the comments below.

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Ready for football season? Here are a few Windows Phone apps to help you keep up with all the Gridiron action

Sigh. I thought you meant Soccer. I forgot where wpc resides. Maybe try 'American football' next time? Also you should do one for the Barclays Premier League season. And shouldn't the Bing sports app be included in this list?

No he doesn't mean "American football" or "American rugby". He means football. This is an american site so you're going to get american terminology. Maybe George will be nice enough to do an article on soccer for you.

As an American, I disagree. NFL is American Football. Soccer is football.
I have a feeling that most of the 67,000 fans at this weekend's Seattle Sounders-Portland Timbers match will agree with me. Go Sounders!

Switch to ESPN or NFL.com! At least they are supporting WP. 2 of my leagues are on ESPN. Unfortunately, the third is on CBS, but that league is going into something like its 15th season on CBS, and its 20th season overall. So I am stuck using the browswer with the full site. At least they could do is have a good mobile app.

To all the haters of American football... especially the euros like myself... Take a few minutes to learn the rules of this sport and you will realize how awesome it is. Once you learn the rules it doesn't seem that slow paced anymore. Few sports utilizes sportsmen with such varied physics and talents.

Ok, let's not call it football. Instead it can be referred to the "American Legal Money Printing Machine" Cause basically that's what it is

...And for the record, not mentioned here but the best Football App IMO, err, I mean American Football App....OH! F**K it..The best NFL App is "Football Live" it's way more useful then the NFL or ESPN versions.

I have a sneaking suspicion that, while a lot of you are outside of the US, that a majority of the traffic to this site is from inside of the US. Therefore, to the supposed majority, "Football" instantly connects us with the grid iron. I'm sure the WPC UK site that doesn't exist, but maybe should, would have called it "American Football".

"American Football" is simply called "Football" in the USA (logically, as they know what country they're living in). WPCentral, being an American website, calls it what they know it as.
If they were talking about soccer/football, they would have written "Soccer".
This pissing and moaning about semantics is stupid...I don't see any comments from Canadians complaining "Shucks, I thought you were talking about Canadian Football."
Get a grip, people. It would be like me going to a Premiere League site from the UK
and demanding they change the word "football" to "soccer". How stupid is that?

Football is a sport played around the world by a multitude of nations and many professional leagues. American football is so called because it's only played at any meaningful level in the United States., Canada and Germany.
The world game is football, the numbers tell their own story, both recreationally and professionally football is so much bigger than American Football to mention them in the same sentence is ridiculous.
Call it semantics if you like, I call it fact.
Having said all of that, I couldn't care less about the headline of this article I learned a long time ago that this site is based in the USA and caters to those residing there. Such is life, jog on, nothing to see here.

Not true at all. Just saw a report the other day, that 150,000 kids in the State of Washington play soccer, far outstripping every other sport. Just one of the adult soccer leagues in Seattle (there are more than one) has over 400 teams.

Only issue I've found with the Bing app is that if I go to my favorite team thru the team pin, I can't go from there back to the entire league without having to go ba k to the home screen and then going into the regular Bing sports app and drilling back into NFL, BPL, MLB, etc.

Yet the Super Bowl as of late consistently draws as many, if not more, viewers on average than say the UEFA Champions League Final. People around the world may not be wearing the jerseys and sporting the apparel, but they are at least curious.

@person of interest. That's funny. The biggest single sporting event in the world? The olympics, second The world cup, third? The European Championships. Played by countries, you can't do that with American football.
The Superbowl is impressive, don't get me wrong, it's just not even in the same league as a game played country versus country. That I'm afraid is a stone cold fact not a point of view.

Surprised that Lunosoftware's apps are not mentioed. The best use of live tiles and scoring updates and alert notifications are almost instantaneous. Note that their apps just give score and standings-no news or any other info. Just great tiles that show progress of games..